First, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford lost his job. Now he’s lost his reality TV show. After a single episode.

The Canadian Sun News Network on Nov. 19 canceled “Ford Nation” after its debut the previous night, according to the Globe and Mail newspaper.

The latest slap to the crack-smoking Mayor comes after being the focus of late-night comics for a week, and after making the rounds of “Today,” “Good Morning America,” CNN and Fox News. Ford and his brother Doug Ford, also a Toronto politician, earlier lost their radio talk show. The media contracts have been ditched in the wake of the Mayor’s very public career meltdown.

Joanne Ostrow has been watching TV since before "reality" required quotation marks. "Hill Street Blues" was life-changing. If Dickens, Twain or Agatha Christie were alive today, they'd be writing for television. And proud of it.